Nathaniel Chaplin "Nathan" Brown (born May 20, 1988) is an American actor and director whose career started by playing the lead role in the 2009 thriller Enter the Void

Enter the Void

Enter the Void is a French film written and directed by Gaspar Noé, starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by the police, but continues to watch succeeding...

, which was directed by Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...

, and nominated for a Cannes Palme d'Or. He starred alongside American actress Paz de la Huerta

Paz de la Huerta

María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta , better known by her professional name Paz de la Huerta, is an American actress and model...

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Born in Hershey, PA, Brown had been taught at home by his mother until the 10th grade. He has one older sister, Hannah, two younger sisters, Elizabeth, and Abigail, and one younger brother, Wells.

Nathan moved to New York City in 2007 when he was street cast by Barbara Pfister to model shows during Fashion Week

Fashion Week

A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...

. His modeling career spanned two seasons and ended when he was cast for Enter The Void. After the shooting of the movie, he appeared in a Barneys New York ad campaign alongside Gabe Nevins

Gabe Nevins

Gabriel "Gabe" Nevins is a professional actor who landed the star role in Gus Van Sant’s 2007 film Paranoid Park. The film premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as one of the 22 films in the competition, and won the extra-special 60th anniversary prize.In 2006, the Milwaukie, Oregon, native...

 shot by Nick Haymes. He was also shot by Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

Nancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...

for V Magazine where he gave an interview for the July 2009 issue.